Monday, November 19, 1951
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Maryland
Accused Of
Disservice
Dallas, Nov. 19—<£>)—Bill Rives,
sports editor of the Dallas News,
today rapped Maryland for accept
ing a bid to the Sugar Bowl with
out its conference’s permission and
said the action was a disservice to
intercollegiate athletics.
, In his daily column, Rives de
clared that Maryland, in taking the
bowl bid, figuratively thumbed its
nose at its own conference “and
the Sugar Bowl was a partner to
the conspiracy.”
He declared that these were
.troublous time in intercollegiate
athletics as educators and coaches
all over the nation concern them-
* selves with deep explorations into
athletic practices “seeking to bring
sports back to a sensible level.”
Action A Disservice
And, he said Maryland’s action
was a disservice because one of
the suggestions which has been
made in the hunt for a means of
reducing athletic “pressures” is the
study of a possible elimination of
post season football games.
“Within three days after Mary
land’s action, the NCAA council
will be meeting in Chicago to for
mulate a definite program designed
to release the pressures which
„ have sent athletics to the sick bed,”
the News sports editor wrote.
“As the council members con
vene Monday, there is certain to be
.a lot of head-shaking over Mary
land’s disregard of the basic pri-
ciples of honesty and fair-handed
dealing. Maryland and the Sugar
Bowl, at a time when wisdom and
honor are sorely needed in ath
letics, have created another head
ache.”
No Action Taken
Rives pointed out that the South
ern Conference, of which Mary
land is a member, has not taken
any action on the subject of bowl
games but that the president of
the conference schools voted last
September to recommend a ban on
post-season contests.
That recommendation is due to
be presented for formal confer
ence action Dec. 16.
Mainland was one of several
teams being considered by the Cot
ton. Bowl but Cotton Bowl repre
sentatives told Maryland that in
order to remain “ in the running”
it would have to obtain permission
of the Southern Conference, Rives
continued.
No Permission Given
“The Cotton Bowl, which is op
erated by the Southwest Confer
ence, always conducts its opera
tions upon an ethical basis, and
certainly, it would not accept a
team which did not have permis
sion of that team’s-conference col
leagues,”, .he. wrote. ,.
Discussing why Maryland “by
passed its own conference,” Rives
said “it seems logical to assume
that Maryland was afraid” to poll
its conference members.
“By plunging ahead and taking
the Sugar Bowl offer, Maryland
put the Southern Conference in an
embarrasing position. The confer
ence will find itself, at the Decem
ber meeting, faced with a fait ac
compli.”
Rives declared that “the spec
tacle of a school refusing to act
honorably and ethically, because
it is prestige-mad or greedy, or
both, will sicken some of the men
)vho are charged with the conduct
1>1V college athletics.”
Cotton Bowl Undecided
Dallas, Nov. 19—(A*)—There were
Indications today that it will be a
* week before the visiting team is
named for the Cotton Bowl.
The selection committee met yes-
* terday but arrived at no decision.
The, unsettled situation in the
Southwest Conference, which fur
nishes the host team, was one of
the reasons.
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dives in low to knock the feet out from under
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the game in Austin as Dawson tried to skirt his
right end after taking a pitch out. The play
gained five yards. Coming to aid on the stop is
TCU fullback Keith Flowers (34) and TCU tackle
Douglas Conaway. Texas won 32 to 21.
George Has His
Troubles Too
Big Ray George, head football
coach of the Texas Aggies, visited
the press box atop the Rice Stad
ium just after his Cadet eleven
suffered their third defeat of the
year.
Stepping into the elevator for
his return trip to the ground floor,
he met a tired looking old man
who had been on duty running the
elevator for seven hours.
■ The elderly gentleman began his
tale of woe. “I’ve been running this
thing up and down since 10:30 this
morning.”
Looking shyly down at the old
man, the 260 pound George replied
tiredlv, “Yep—we all have trou
bles.”
Dream Come True
Relates Lauricella
Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 19—(A 5 )—
“It’s a dream come true,” said
Hank Lauricella as he contemplat
ed the storybook finish which will
cap off his college football career
when Tennessee plays Maryland
in the Sugar Bowl Jan. 1.
“It’s going to be one of the
greatest pleasures of my life to
go back and play before the home
folks,” said the triple-threat Ten
nessee tailback who, grew up play
ing football in the shadow of the
massive concrete New Orleans
Bowl.
Late in 1947 Gen. Bob Neyland,
the Vol head coach, saw Hank lead
Holy Cross High School to vic
tory over Easton High in a New
Orleans prep school grudge battle.
Friends who wanted him to go
to Tulane or Louisiana State told
Hank he was too light for Ten
nessee’s tough brand of single
wing football.
“I found out real soon,” says the
169-pound All-America candidate,
“that behind a line like the general
develops, a little guy could do all
right from any formation.”
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Bowl Sponsors Say
‘ WouldDropGame
New Orleans, Nov. 19—(A 5 )—
Sugar Bowl sponsors, defending
post season football games against
increasing attack, said today they
would drop their annual sports
program immediately “if any of
us thought we were harming col
legiate sports.”
The defense was issued two days
after Maryland and Tennessee were
announced as opponents for the
18th annual Sugar Bowl game Jan.
1.
“We do mot yield to any in
dividual or group in our allegiance
to intercollegiate athletics in gen
eral and football in particular,”
the sponsors said in a statement.
“If any of us thought we were do
ing anything harmful to collegiate
sports, we would cease our pro
gram at once. On the contrary we
believe we have made a very def
inite contribution.”
Whipping Boy
“Recent critics have attempted
to make a ‘whipping boy’ of post
season contests,” they said.
The Sugar Bowl did not identify
any of the critics. One recent critic
was Charlie Caldwell of Princeton,
the 1950 “Coach of the Year.” Last
week he urged that all bowl games
be outlawed.
Football would have no prob
lems with commercialism, he said,
if post-season games wer'e elimin
ated.
Among Arguments . . .
Among the arguments the New
Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Asso
ciation sponsors of the Sugar Bowl
carnival, advanced in support of
the Rose, Cotton, Sugar and
Orange Bowls were: • . .
1. In the 18 years (or more) that
the four major bowl games have
existed none “has in any. way
done anything harmful to. any edu
cation institution, football players
or the game itself.
2. The four major bowls have
been approved by the National
Collegiate Athletic Association and
are regulated under provisions pet,
forth in the NCAA constitution.
3. The major bowls have al
ways been handled by football of
ficials selected by the conferences
from which the participating teams
come.
4. Football fans of America have
contributed more than $10—million
dollars to schools participating in
the four major bowl games. In
many conferences all of the confer
ence schools share in the proceeds.
All Bowls Civic
5. All of the four major bowls
are civic, non-profit organizations;
collegiate in concept and conduct;
free of any taint of professional
ism.
6. “The so-called ‘pressure’ for
a winner is not the result of post
season football games. It is a
vital part of every American en
deavor be it education, athletics,
profession or business.”
7. Bowl games have not accent
uated pressure for winners, 95
percent of the teams participating
in the four major bowl games were
beaten or tied during the regular
season—an unbeaten record never
has been a requisite for a bowl
invitation.
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SWC Roundup
Aggies Fall Again; TCU Loses
Based On AP Reports
Rice won again as they surged
ahead into a tie with TCU in the
SWC championship championship
race as the Owls- overran the Ag
gies, 28-13.
Teddy Riggs showed his heels
to the Cadets several times as he
sped for an 80 yard touchdown
and remained a constant threat for
yardage throughout the game.
Dan Drake clicked with his pass
es, tossing 13 and completing 9 for
a total of 94 big yards.
The Aggie ground game was far
below par as they were held to 149
yards by an inspired homecoming
Owl eleven.
Rice pulled the surprises from
the bag as they displayed 289
yards rushing.
Smith-Lippman
All-American Bob Smith and
halfback Glenn Lippman of the
Aggies were the big guns for A&M,
and end Charlie Hodge showed
great form as he grabbed two pass
es for touchdowns.
The first of these was thrown by
quarterback Dick Gardemal, and
the second by Ray Graves, promis
ing junior quarterback of the Ca
dets.
Graves stepped into the game for
the first time late in the third
quarter but failed to pull the game
from the fire. He was well : on his
way ivhen he hit Hodge in the end
zone for the second A&M touch
down, but fell short when the
Owls surged back with an inter
ception and followed through with
a powerful air and ground attack.
The Aggie offense looked the
same as usual in the first half
when they ramroded their way
for 129 of their 149 yard total,
but drizzled into submission in the
second half.
Game at a Glance
Rice
LE....Howton, Boughton, Bridges
LT Walls, Schuebel, Pontikas
LG Little, Chapman
Cen Day, Rhoden, Rucks, Moore
RG Wagner, Timmons, Hart,
Treadway
RT Crockett, Hudson
RE....McCurry, Schroeder, Wright
QB Drake, Nesrsta
LH Riggs, Daniels, Silver
RH Haddox, C. Johnson
FB Burkhalter, D. Johnson,
Gabrecht
A&M
LE Hooper, Miller
LT Moses, Niland, Langford
LG...; M. Rush, Zuch
Cen Meyer, Moore, Robbins,
Fowler
RG .....Nohavitza
RT Little, Frey, Dixon
RE Hodge, Crossman, Shaeffer
QB Gardemal, Graves
LH Lippman, Lary, Mayeaux
RH Tidwell, McDonald
FB Smith, Hass, Magourik,
Salyer, Lemmons.
Score by periods:
Rice 0 7 7 14—28
A&M 0 7 0 6—13
Scoring (in order of occurrence):
IQ—No scoring.
2Q—Gardemal (A&M) passed 6
yards to Hodge for touchdown,
Hooper converted (3:07); Drake
(Rice) passed 20 yards to McCur-
ry for chore, Wright converted
(14:10).
3Q—Drake passed 12 yards to
Howton for touchdown. Wright
converted (7:41).
4Q—Graves (A&M) passed 24
yards to Hodge for score (00.06);
Riggs (Rice ran 80 yards for touch
down. Wright converted (00:30);
Riggs ran 7 yards for score.
Wright converted (10:22).
Officials— Referee, Clifford
Shaw; umpire, Don Looney; head
linesman. F. F. (Rube) Leissner;
field judge, Charles Hawn.
Longhorns 32, Frogs 21
It was a close battle between the
University of Texas and TCU un
til the longhorns unleashed an
aerial attack which showered upon
the Frogs and proved to be the
deciding factor in the 32-21 clash.
The Longhorns came up with
a surprisingly efficient aerial of
fensive, which scored strikes in
vital spots and paced the way for
a triumph over the Frogs, the
first Southwest Conference defeat
of the season knocking the Purple
down into a tie with Rice for the
league lead.
A crowd estimated at 55,000 sat
in on the wild scramble which
transpired down on the turf of
huge Memorial Stadium, and the
fans were treated to a fine mix
ture of offensive fireworks, defen
sive stalwartness, and breaks—in
terceptions, fumbles, even a block
ed punt.
The breaks played their part, too,
and three of the four first half
touchdowns were of the tarnished
variety, the intermission ending
even at 14-14.
But in the third period, the Long
horns struck far and fast for a
third touchdown two plays after
the kickoff, added the “killer”
blow with another in the same
quarter on a 97-yard thrust for a
26-14 margin, then put the clincher
into the records at 12:45 of the
final quarter after the fifth Texas
interception of the afternoon had
set up the opportunity on the TCU
30.
The Frogs, first behind by seven
points in the initial period, then
ahead for a few moments at 14-7
in the second, scored their third
and final touchdown on the last
play of the game when it was far
too late to ignite the rally.
That Texas aerial barrage, mea
ger in number but large in re
sults, connected on seven of nine
attempts for 190 yards, directly
accounted for the second and third
touchdowns which swung the game
back in to the Longhorns’ control
and helped immeasurably in the
short drive for the fifth score.
Fullback Dick Ochoa, whose run
ning represented the biggest
ground threat to the Frogs, col
lected 101 yards on 21 carries.
Defensively, it was Linebackers.
Kieth Flowers and John Harville
and Tackle Morgan Williams who
turned in the more spectacular
work for the Christians, Williams
being the lad who jarred Texas
Quarterback James (T) Jones loose
from the ball and recovered on
the two-yard line to set up the
Purple’s second—and what looked
for a while to be decisive touch-,
down.
On the Texas side, just put down
the entire line and secondary for'
credit on defense.
Game at a Glance
TCU Texas
16 First Downs 14
93 Yards Gained Rushing 204
200....Yards Gained Passing....190
18 of 33....Passes completed....? of 9
1 Passes Intercepted by 5
7 Number of Punts 4.
32.9 Punt average 37
•3 for 27 Penalties 9 for 77
(See ROUND-UP, Page 4)
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